Welcome
to the The Johns Hopkins Men's Health Electronic Resource Guide. The content
is provided by Johns Hopkins faculty and is intended to provide primary
care physicians with concise and timely information about the diagnosis
and treatment of diseases and conditions that affect male patients.

If you have
a question pertaining to men's health, you can submit it on line to a
panel of experts. Your questions will be directed to the best person to
answer it, and pending a brief review by the editorial board, that expert
will respond to your question and post it live on the site.

Future InitiativesThe
guide is currently in development. With support of the resource guide,
our plan is to provide the following features soon:

Chat sessions
with faculty

News and
updates

Educational
hand-outs for patients on diagnosis and treatment

Instant
messaging: new FDA approvals, research study results

Feature
length articles from Johns Hopkins physicians or Peers at other institutions

Physician
commentary on recently published papers in peer-reviewed journals

Authors
We are a team of Johns Hopkins' physicians and epidemiologists of multidisciplinary
expertise with a common interest in health issues facing men and a common
goal of bringing a focus on men's health to the primary care setting.

Arthur
L. Burnett, MD, FACS has become an established expert in the areas
of major pelvic reconstruction, voiding dysfunction, female urology, prostate
cancer, and erectile dysfunction. This expertise is built on academic
studies regarding surgical anatomy of the pelvis, advances in surgical
techniques of genital and pelvic reconstructive surgery, and basic science
research contributions in the fundamental aspects of pelvic organ function.

Bill Clarke,
PhD, is a Post-Doctoral Fellow in Clinical Chemistry from the Department
of Pathology . Research interests include proteomic studies involving
organ transplants and clinical analyte method development.

Peter
J. Fagan, PhD, is Associate Professor of Medical Psychology in the
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. He is Director of the
Center for Marital and Sexual Health located in Green Spring Station and
Director of the Sexual Behaviors Consultation Unit, the hospital based
teaching unit of the Center. Dr. Fagan is Past President of the Society
for Sex Therapy and Research . His research and clinical interests have
been the relationship between personality and sexual disorders and the
sexual issues of patients with chronic medical illnessess.

Donna
Karasic, Pharm. D., is Research Pharmacist at the Johns Hopkins Hospital.

Claude
Migeon, M.D. is Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Pediatric
Endocrinology. Dr. Migeon's research interests include the development
of children affected by syndromes of abnormal sex differentiation.

Alex J.
Rai, PhD, is a Clinical and Research Fellow, Dept. of Pathology, Divsion
of Clinical Chemistry
Clinical and research interests include use of proteomics based tools
to identify novel biomarkers for disease, ovarian cancer, and use of bioinformatics
tools to address problems in clinical proteomics.

Lori J.
Sokoll, Ph.D is an Assistant Professor of Pathology and Associate
Director of the Clinical Chemistry Division. Her research interests include
clinical and analytical aspects of tumor markers and immunoassay automation.

Kerry
J. Stewart, Ed.D., M.Ed., M.A., is Associate Professor of Medicine
in Cardiology at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine; Director, Johns
Hopkins Heart Health. Dr. Stewart's clinical and research interests are
in the area of exercise testing and training, and body composition of
patients with coronary artery disease, hypertension, and diabetes, and
coronary risk factor assessment and modification in adults and children.

Gary Wand
is Professor of Medicine and Psychiatry as well as Director of Neuroendocrine
services at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He is an
internationally recognized expert in the diagnosis and treatment of pituitary
gland disorders

Amy Wisniewski,
Ph.D. is Instructor of Pediatrics in the Division of Pediatric Endocrinology.
Dr. Wisniewski's research interests include long-term psychosexual development
in individuals affected by syndromes of
abnormal sex differentiation.